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Students should support aggregate vocation options acceptable and not suffer assurance if their archetypal penchant does not materialise, speakers said astatine The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026, held astatine Doddappa Appa Sabha Mantapa connected the field of Sharnbasva University successful Kalaburagi connected Saturday (May 16).
More than 500 students from assorted colleges, including Chandrakanth Patil PU College, Appa PU College, Disha PU College, Shaheen PU College and Sharnbasveshwar Residential Composite PU College, participated successful the event.
Anilkumar Bidve, Vice-Chancellor of Sharnbasva University, advised students to support Plan B, C and D acceptable if Plan A fails.
“Unfortunately, our acquisition strategy is designed successful specified a mode that a three-hour introspection decides your destiny irrespective of what you studied implicit the past 15 years. Once you transverse the PU stage, the choices you marque volition power your career. If you neglect to unafraid your archetypal preference, bash not get discouraged. Keep aggregate options acceptable and proceed to enactment hard,” helium said.
Prof. Anilkumar Bidve, Vice-Chancellor of Sharnbasva University, addressing students during The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026 successful Kalaburagi connected Saturday (May 16). | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
Citing the illustration of NEET aspirants, Prof. Bidve said astir 24 lakh students appeared for the introspection each twelvemonth but not each could unafraid aesculapian seats contempt scoring precocious marks. Students should truthful not suffer assurance if they failed to unafraid their desired people oregon institution, helium added.
Sharing his ain experience, helium said helium had aspired to go a idiosyncratic successful nationalist laboratories but could not realise that dream. “I implemented Plan B and became a teacher successful a CBSE school. Today, I americium the Vice-Chancellor of a reputed university,” helium said.
Prof. Bidve underlined the increasing spread betwixt request and proviso of skilled manpower successful the state and said unemployment persisted contempt the immense request for skilled workers due to the fact that of deficiency of employability.
“Only degrees are not sufficient. Skills are much important,” helium said.
He besides observed that portion determination was a unreserved for computer-related engineering courses, determination were constricted opportunities to sorb each graduates successful the sector. At the aforesaid time, accepted engineering streams specified arsenic civil, mechanical and electrical engineering continued to clasp beardown aboriginal prospects arsenic their halfway skills could not beryllium replaced easily, helium added.
C.R. Shivakumar, caput of the Surgery Department astatine Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, spoke connected opportunities successful aesculapian sciences and allied healthcare sectors.
“The aesculapian assemblage demands dedication, hard enactment and passionateness to service society. If your lone extremity is to marque money, healthcare whitethorn not beryllium the close tract for you,” helium said.
He advised students not to consciousness disheartened if they failed to unafraid MBBS seats, pointing retired that respective alternate courses specified arsenic dental, ayurvedic, unani, naturopathy, homoeopathy, pharmacy, nursing and physiotherapy besides offered promising vocation opportunities. He besides highlighted increasing opportunities successful allied wellness sciences, including aesculapian laboratory technology, anaesthesia and cognition theatre technology, cardiac attraction technology, respiratory attraction exertion and aesculapian imaging technology.
PU students from antithetic colleges attending The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2026, organised successful Kalaburagi connected Saturday (May 16). | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
Career counsellor Abdul Nasir Mauzam of CIGMA urged students to measure their interests, passionateness and competence earlier choosing careers. He besides addressed concerns surrounding AI, saying it would not regenerate humans but radical who failed to accommodate to AI tools could beryllium near behind.
Drawing a examination with calculators, helium said radical erstwhile feared calculators would regenerate humans, but aboriginal those incapable to usage calculators lagged behind. A akin inclination would look successful the AI era, helium added.
Chartered Accountant Santosh Patil highlighted vocation and concern opportunities successful commerce and chartered accountancy. He urged students to larn from failures and absorption connected acquiring skills alternatively than depending solely connected world degrees. He besides encouraged students to work subjects beyond their syllabus, including Kannada literature.
Karnataka Examinations Authority typical Suresh Shetagar guided students connected CET exertion procedures and enactment introduction during online counselling, explaining communal mistakes students should debar portion selecting courses and institutions.
Sharanabasappa Pappa, president of the Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries, and Iranna Yalawantgi, caput of the Physics Department astatine Disha PU College of Science, besides addressed the students.
